Altman's Training Log

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Day before the big race

So our semifinal is tomorrow. That's the race we've been targeting all year. Because this is one of the lightweight events in the Olympic, the depth is this field is pretty incredible and there is only a few seconds between first and twelfth. In our first couple of races here, we haven't been able to race up to our potential - and we've gotten really bad breaks with trying to set our oars to the conditions (headwind vs. tailwind). So we are making a few more adjustments, and will be ready race hard in the semis. The level of racing will be pretty incredible, but this is what we've been waiting for. I know we are a good crew and we will try to put together a race that we are all proud of.

Rowing in the news....

About Me

I'm an ex-athlete, and competed with the National Rowing Team for 10 years. Now I'm a desk jockey with a cleantech firm which as temporarily relocated me to Boston until the end of 2010. I've put on 20 pounds (in my case that's healthy, considering how skinny I was when I was rowing as a lightweight). Now I'm trying to get in shape to run a marathon around my job as I transition. I miss training, but not enough to go back to it.
Also, in case you hadn't heard, I'm kind of a big deal.